R v O.N.E.

R v O.N.E.
Supreme Court of Canada
Hearing: 2001: June 18; Judgment: 2001: November 15.
Full case name	Vancouver Sun v. Her Majesty The Queen, O.N.E. and the Attorney General of Canada
Citations	[2001] SCC 77, [2001] 3 SCR 478
Docket No.	28190 [1]
Prior history	APPEAL from SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Ruling	Appeal allowed
Court membership
Chief Justice: Beverley McLachlin Puisne Justices: Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, Charles Gonthier, Frank Iacobucci, John C. Major, Michel Bastarache, Ian Binnie, Louise Arbour, Louis LeBel
Reasons given
Unanimous reasons by	Yes
Majority	Iacobucci J.

R v O.N.E. was a legal case heard in 2001 before the Supreme Court of Canada. It was an appeal against a ban on publication of details of the police investigation of a murder case. The appeal was allowed.

Finding

Judge Iacobucci J. wrote for a unanimous Court that the appeal raised substantially similar issues to those considered by the Court in R v Mentuck. He concluded that the publication ban sought should not have been ordered by the trial judge in light of the appropriate common law test for a publication ban. The appeal was therefore allowed. The publication ban, which was varied by the Court, was declared effective for a period of one year following the release of this judgment, because by that time, the operations in which the police officers were then involved should be completed. ^[2]

References

1. SCC Case Information - Docket 28190 Supreme Court of Canada
2. "R. v. O.N.E., [2001] 3 SCR 478, 2001 SCC 77 (CanLII)", canlii.org, Supreme Court of Canada.